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Michael Moore Calls Capitalism 'Legalized Greed'; Serenades Leno Audience
Newsbusters ^ | September 16, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 09/16/2009 7:25:14 AM PDT by Rufus2007

Michael Moore, the man of many hats - documentary filmmaker, political scientist and now, singer.

Moore has been making the rounds to promote his new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story." On NBC's Sept. 15 "Jay Leno Show," Moore appeared and was asked what was wrong with capitalism.

"Capitalism is actually legalized greed," Moore said. "There's nothing wrong with people earning money, starting a business, selling shoes. That's not what I'm talking about. We're at a point now Jay, in this country, where the richest 1 percent, the very top 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigfattarget; bigtarget; broadsideofbarn; cantmiss; capitalism; jayleno; michaelmoore; moneylist
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1 posted on 09/16/2009 7:25:15 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007
Michael Moore Calls Capitalism 'Legalized Greed

And, WHO gets the money from his movies?

Yeah, thought so.

2 posted on 09/16/2009 7:26:52 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Rufus2007

Does anyone ever mention to Moore the Hutt he’s in the top 5% now by choice and ask if he has any intention of giving any of it back or up?


3 posted on 09/16/2009 7:28:07 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: Rufus2007

DW and I turned Leno on for the first time since he started his new show.

We heard Michael Moore was on, and changed the channel.

Sorry Jay. Maybe in a few months we’ll try you again - if you’re still on.

I just don’t consider getting lectured by a morbidly obese, talentless, hypocritical liar to be entertaining. I’m funny that way, I guess.


4 posted on 09/16/2009 7:28:15 AM PDT by chrisser (Tweet not, lest ye a twit be.)
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To: Rufus2007

5 posted on 09/16/2009 7:28:38 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (http://www.muckety.com/7BECFF40501E647D3741343C37265A57.map)
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To: Rufus2007

Leno and his staff showed terrible judgment having this buffoon on their show in the first week. I was flipping around looking for something to watch last night and decided, what the heck, I’ll check out Leno’s new show. Just as a flipped on NBC, I see this worthless blob on the screen wearing a baseball cap and turned it off. I won’t likely be back.


6 posted on 09/16/2009 7:28:39 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Rufus2007

When will MM be giving away ALL his money and “living in a VAN down by the RIVER!”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVVL5gxoeY


7 posted on 09/16/2009 7:29:49 AM PDT by ryan71 (Smells like a revolution)
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To: Rufus2007

And this jackass takes profit from his ‘documentaries’ and doesn’t pay the staff or producers any more than he has to.


8 posted on 09/16/2009 7:31:22 AM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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To: Rufus2007

Fat, liberal, and stupid is no way to go through life.


9 posted on 09/16/2009 7:32:41 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Rufus2007
If you don't like Capitalism then give up your wealth, Michael. Stop using capitalism to to get rich. Set an example for all your socialist friends.

Otherwise, STFU, you lardass hypocrite.

10 posted on 09/16/2009 7:33:55 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: Rufus2007

Yo, Michael Moron, the only “legalized” greed and theft out there is being perpetrated by greedy Big Government.


11 posted on 09/16/2009 7:35:00 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Rufus2007

“That’s insane, we live in a democracy,” Moore continued. “We’re supposed to have like fairness and equality. And you know when you have a pie on the table ... there’s 10 slices and one guy at the table says nine of those slices are mine and the other nine of you, you can fight over the last slice. I mean that’s essential the kind of economy we have now.”

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That quote is the problem and it’s a sentiment that many Americans believe. Where in the world are they learning that we live in a democracy?

How hard is it for teachers to impart to their students that we live in a Republic, where the sovereignty resides in each individual.

Leno could have sunk Moore’s ship with that one fact; “No, Michael, we live in a Republic.”


12 posted on 09/16/2009 7:37:06 AM PDT by nomoremods
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To: Rufus2007

He calls capitalism “legalized greed” with contempt

yet these lefties all support legalization of drug selling and using, and abortion on demand.

they are nutty.


13 posted on 09/16/2009 7:37:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: Rufus2007

Since greed is not illegal, greed is “legalized greed.”


14 posted on 09/16/2009 7:38:19 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Rufus2007

Several years ago he ‘stiffed’ the union contractors who where upgrading his Manahattan condo.


15 posted on 09/16/2009 7:38:59 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Rufus2007

Michael Moore is living in the wrong country.


16 posted on 09/16/2009 7:39:50 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Rufus2007
Says the man in the top 1%. Geez...

Michael Moore is like Ted Kennedy, except for the problematic dead girl.

17 posted on 09/16/2009 7:41:20 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: silverleaf
He calls capitalism “legalized greed” with contempt

How much more so someone who advocates using the coersion of the govt to take wealth that doesn't belong to it and give it to politically selected recipients?

That's what socialism is you moron.

18 posted on 09/16/2009 7:43:28 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: Rufus2007

what he say about being a traitor to a country for dollars...what does he call that.


19 posted on 09/16/2009 7:43:39 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Rufus2007

My appologies to Monty Python, but

Michael Moore, Michael Moore
Rolling ‘cross the glen
Michael Moore, Michael Moore
Can’t keep his belly in
He makes himself rich
By fooling the poor
Michael Moore; Michael Moore


20 posted on 09/16/2009 7:47:54 AM PDT by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: Rufus2007
Fat-a$$ed commie corksucker.

LLS

21 posted on 09/16/2009 7:48:43 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: LRS

Michael looks like he would just eat all of the lupins.


22 posted on 09/16/2009 7:49:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rufus2007
""Capitalism is actually legalized greed," Moore said. "There's nothing wrong with people earning money, starting a business, selling shoes. That's not what I'm talking about. We're at a point now Jay, in this country, where the richest 1 percent, the very top 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."

Here's the kicker!

NOTHING is stopping that bottom 95% from gettting a piece of it too, other than their own lack of desire.... and government interference.
23 posted on 09/16/2009 7:51:34 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: Rufus2007

I don’t see Moore giving his $$$ away.


24 posted on 09/16/2009 7:53:34 AM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: dalebert

If anyone knows about eating 9/10 of a pie its this tub of crap! Micheal if you look in here to see what we are saying about you, heres a tip...check your pulse, having any chest pains yet?


25 posted on 09/16/2009 7:54:25 AM PDT by JohnD9207 (REGISTERED RIGHT WING THUG!)
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To: lonestar

Mr. Moore if capitalism is so bad and greedy, give all your !@#$%^&*! money away and don’t make anymore you big fat liberal lying nutjob.


26 posted on 09/16/2009 7:55:22 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: nomoremods
“That’s insane, we live in a democracy,” Moore continued. “We’re supposed to have like fairness and equality. And you know when you have a pie on the table ... there’s 10 slices and one guy at the table says nine of those slices are mine and the other nine of you, you can fight over the last slice. I mean that’s essential the kind of economy we have now.”

He neglects to mention that the same guy PAID for the pie.

27 posted on 09/16/2009 7:55:59 AM PDT by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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To: Rufus2007

“the richest 1 percent, the very top 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined.”

So what, fat ass?....


28 posted on 09/16/2009 7:57:12 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Mr Moore and many like-minded liberals seem to generalize fairness and equality of OPPORTUNITY with equal outcome of RESULTS.

In reality, life is just not fair.

Liberals are always reminding us to celebrate diversity yet they fail to recognize the mass variety of individual talent,person risk, and creativity that has benefited everyone throughout society.


29 posted on 09/16/2009 8:04:53 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: VanDeKoik
There's nothing wrong with people earning money, starting a business, selling shoes.

So it's okay to start a business, as long as it isn't successful?

30 posted on 09/16/2009 8:07:36 AM PDT by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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To: Rufus2007

“Poor man” Michael Moore whines to “poor man” Jay Leno.

Disgusting.


31 posted on 09/16/2009 8:13:00 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: Rufus2007

He wants to make greed illegal? Why not sloth, envy, and gluttony?

While we’re at it, why don’t we just regulate every element of life?


32 posted on 09/16/2009 8:15:44 AM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: Rufus2007; All

“Greed is GOOD”

Michel moore’s waistline is proof even HE believes that.

No wonder Leno’s ratings dropped 50% the second night. (and he did not have football as competition)


33 posted on 09/16/2009 8:16:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Huskrrrr

Let’s se......
The morbidly obese, fat stupid cow -
Rides in a limo made by an evil coroporation
Flies in private jets produced by evil corporations -
Controls his wealth via banks, investment firms i.e. corporations.
He wears manufactured clothes made by evil corporations
He eats (obviously) food produced by evil corporations.
He makes films under the guise of evil corporations.
I bet he lives in a home where the appliances, lighting, fixtures, carpet, wood flooring, ceramics, cabinets, lumber, roofing material, electronics, HVAC, glazing, furniture and what-have-you were all made available by the evil corporations.

When he lives in his own self made world - transportation, shelter, food, and everything else without the assistance of evil corporations, then I may hear what he has to talk about.

Until then - he is no more than the epitome of a clueless, holier than thou hypocrite. Hope I said all of this plainly.
I’m so sick and tired of these creeps who know what’s best for us.

LFOD


34 posted on 09/16/2009 8:16:23 AM PDT by LFOD (Presently - Back in Dixie)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

The problem with ultra far left wing dogooders is that they do the most good for themselves and to hell with anybody else.


35 posted on 09/16/2009 8:17:00 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: eclecticEel

I think Southpark explained it best during the “hippie digger” episode.

All the hippies said we have to live in a comune where we exchange goods and services....but the college students were to stoned to realise they were formulating capitalism.

Moore is seeking to establish citizen slavery.


36 posted on 09/16/2009 8:18:31 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Rufus2007

What about Michael’s waistline? Isn’t that legal too?

When I argue with idiots that say “insurance company greed” is a reason for national “health care”, I point them to their own greed.

Fun!


37 posted on 09/16/2009 8:21:30 AM PDT by ROTB ("By any means necessary" apparently includes pimping sex slaves, and lying about the income.)
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To: Rufus2007

STFU you fat fatty fat man


38 posted on 09/16/2009 8:24:10 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Impeach the Traitor and his Minions !)
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To: Rufus2007

One of the biggest capitalistic f***s on the planet and he calls others greedy. Someone should ask this enormously fat ba***** what he does with all his money he makes from his fakeumentaries.


39 posted on 09/16/2009 8:30:07 AM PDT by calex59 (FUBO, we want our constitution back and we intend to get it!)
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To: Rufus2007

For someone agin it; Moore has certainly benefited.


40 posted on 09/16/2009 8:35:01 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: nomoremods

I’m pretty sure that Leno has 9 pieces of a pie and Moore has 9 pieces of another pie. But the two sit and groan about the unfairness of it all.

“Oh the poor little people! Whatever will they do? We have all the pie!”

Leno is a hypocrite and so is the overgrown Moore.


41 posted on 09/16/2009 8:40:47 AM PDT by carmody
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To: Rufus2007

“There’s nothing wrong with people earning money, starting a business, selling shoes”

You could technically do this without capitalism, but he must realize it helps. His attempt to redifine the word that stands for our entire economic system into an insult for greedy people, he must realize, will tend to convey the idea that he thinks the entire system—including money-earners, business-starters, and shoe-sellers— is evil, nasty, and greedy. But he doesn’t care. He doesn’t believe in the system any more than the bankrupt fat cats.


42 posted on 09/16/2009 8:47:40 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: nomoremods

The idiot neglects to mention that the guy who takes the nine slices, bought the ingredients for the pie, mixed them, and baked it in an oven that he paid for.

I guess his mommy never read him the story of the “The Little Red Hen”.


43 posted on 09/16/2009 8:51:11 AM PDT by ks_shooter
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To: Kickass Conservative
Michael Moore is like Ted Kennedy, except for the problematic dead girl.

He's probably got one of those too, smooshed somewhere under his fat rolls.

44 posted on 09/16/2009 8:55:05 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Rufus2007

Headline should read: “Jay Leno shoots himself in the foot on his first night out.”


45 posted on 09/16/2009 8:57:26 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Rufus2007

Did Leno school him up at all?


46 posted on 09/16/2009 9:06:31 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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To: Rufus2007
Jay Left-o is showcasing and providing a forum for life's losers (like Kenye West) and heavyweights (like Michael Moore) in the uber-liberal pop culture to pop off and propagandize as they choose. This very unfunny host will continue to do so as long as masochists drool over the blatherings of his tin-god guests thinking they're watching superb entertainment.

Superb, well-crafted entertainment, for example, was The Steve Allen Show. Most of today's generation viewers never saw this truly funny series of programs. Entertainment in many fields has been totally dumbed down....and low expectations engender low entertainment.

I put the Jay Lame-o hours to good use by freeping during that time slot. I can read the most clever/uproarious/truly witty one-liners on this forum, and I don't have to sit through commercials.

Leni

47 posted on 09/16/2009 9:15:44 AM PDT by MinuteGal ( Americans ! FLIP THIS HOUSE ! (( Congress in 2010 ! ))
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To: calex59

He obviously eats it.


48 posted on 09/16/2009 9:21:26 AM PDT by carmody
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To: Rufus2007
Obamabots will learn the hard way that wealth is not created on a socialist printing press.

Wait until the real producers give it up and stop producing wealth and there is no food in the markets, no clean water to drink, no coal to produce electricity, no oil in the pipelines, no shoes, clothing, bullets or i-Pods on the store shelves.

People that want Obama to make us more like the third world won't like it when we get there. When there are few of life's necessities and luxuries available for purchase, paper money doesn't even make good toilet paper.


49 posted on 09/16/2009 9:29:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat." - Claire Wolfe)
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To: calex59
"One of the biggest capitalistic f***s on the planet and he calls others greedy. Someone should ask this enormously fat ba***** what he does with all his money he makes from his fakeumentaries."

Read my tagline...

50 posted on 09/16/2009 10:07:21 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Mantra of the left: 'It's only okay when WE do it.'")
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